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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/test/test_tarfile.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_tarfile.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py index 91cf024..2fbb51e 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py @@ -207,6 +207,15 @@ class MiscReadTest(ReadTest): self.assert_(tarinfo.type == tarfile.DIRTYPE, "v7 dirtype failed") + def test_xstar_type(self): + # The xstar format stores extra atime and ctime fields inside the + # space reserved for the prefix field. The prefix field must be + # ignored in this case, otherwise it will mess up the name. + try: + self.tar.getmember("misc/regtype-xstar") + except KeyError: + self.fail("failed to find misc/regtype-xstar (mangled prefix?)") + def test_check_members(self): for tarinfo in self.tar: self.assert_(int(tarinfo.mtime) == 0o7606136617, |